There's got to be significance in Arto Holopainen's article on controlling your 'snake' in a S60 smartphone game using just your biceps, wired up directly to the handset. Impressive, though confusing stuff, although it would certainly kill two birds with one stone by letting you have a workout while improving your gaming skills.
Interesting to see a final speaker line-up, with pictures, on the Smartphone Show web site. Note that there's a more varied array than in previous years, including speakers from Google, Sony and RIM, and that there are catchy titles for each talk that will hopefully mean more interesting content...
Despite my attempt to be a party pooper last week, David Beers brings the Carnival of the Mobilists right back on track with festive photos galore. Plenty of interesting mobile-related reading, as always.
I came across this fascinating blog post by Barbara at Little Springs Design, talking about the different schools of thought with regard to the 'mobile web', and making the good point that switching quickly from one browser or application 'window' to another is far more inconvenient than on the desktop and that this point makes a difference to how the mobile web will pan out.
DVB-H, perhaps already the worldwide front running candidate technology for mobile TV, has received a huge boost with the news that Nokia and Motorola have announced that they will 'work to achieve interoperability among their DVB-H-enabled mobile devices and network services'. Full press release follows...
AAS colleague Darla attended the opening of Nokia's New York City flagship store. Here's part one of her illustrated diary entry. I wonder when Nokia will hit London?
You may have already bookmarked my own 3-Lib web guide, but there's another mobile web portal on the block, 247mini, run by recent Nokia E61 convert Shaun McGill. It's pretty impressive, too, and well worth bookmarking from any PDA or smartphone.
Michael Mace has written what has to be one of the clearest market comparison articles I've read in a long time. Over on his blog he's gone into some wonderful cultural comparisions of the European and American marketplaces for mobile technology. Ever wondered why Nokia "has Rock Star status" in Europe yet is "lost in the crowd of semi-anonymous Euro-brands" in the US? Why number portability is king? And why not to ask a European Operator about MMS revenue?
Moconews has a great interview with one of the VP's from Gameloft, and it touches on a lot of the issues we all know are in the mobile space - advertising and promotion, gaining new customers, the cost of mobile games and a lot more. Worth checking out.
Interested to spot over on ARNnet, HTC's president stating that they wouldn't rule out working with Symbian OS. Not that it's likely or imminent, but interesting nevertheless, with HTC making most of the world's Windows Mobile hardware. Note also the shipping figure at the end of the piece, which agrees with the Symbian OS market share figures in previous AAS analysis (60% or so).
Hey, it's my (3-Lib's) turn to host the world famous Carnival of the Mobilists. Ten or so choice articles to while away your coffee break... Here's Carnival no. 43.
If you wanted to watch that BBC Newsnight spot on Symbian and the future of mobile phones but have found that the Newsnight page itself no longer offers it, fear not - it's been so popular that the BBC have stuck it up on its own URL, see the comment link below.
